Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
If you are corrupt and you have extra cash you are able to shut the mouth of your accuser and they will be silenced.
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
I think Nigerians got it wrong from independence as people became so conscious of the divisions because we wanted so much to satisfy the plurality of interests. I will say, we neglected the importance of real value, human value and the quality of potential in human beings and we contrived phrases like geographical spread, regional quota, etc and allowed mediocrity to reign. I think that is the problem that we are dealing with till today.
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.
Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A world that hasn't changed for hundreds of thousands of years wakes up, and carries on as if the daylight and the humans and the changes to the landscape have all been an illusion.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
I had an unorthodox high-school experience; I shifted around to different schools. When I got to college and met Larry Sacharow, who ran the theatre department [at Fordham University in NYC], he was the first person to say ‘I believe in you. ’ At that point, I just needed someone to say ‘I see you, I get you, let’s go. ’ It’s an amazing thing to borrow someone else’s confidence in you; it can change your life.